 | 1822 - 496 pages
...old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries, and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at — or...in these busyidle diversions, than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of chil dren. Here John slyly... | |
 | 1822 - 734 pages
...movement, till, upon my fro in the fish pond, at the bottom of looking grave, it desisted — the best the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike...these busy-idle diversions, than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited... | |
 | English fiction - 1835 - 356 pages
...limes, in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace, that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...sweet flavors of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children. Here John slily deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes,... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...impertinent friskings, — I had more pleasure in these busy idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth —or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...impertinent friskings,— I had more pleasure in these busy idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...— or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of Th"e"garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway...silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent frisk ings, — I had more pleasure in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...the old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at — or...impertinent friskings — I had more pleasure in these busy idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 420 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...sweet flavors of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes,... | |
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... look at — -or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening, too, along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching... 
